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SELF GEN PROJECT PRT.1

For this projects, its completed self generated. I didn’t have a theme planned for this project, so I started off with making quick responses to anything. I started off with just painting whatever come to mind. I then went on to think about snakes and movement due to me drawing quite curved lines. So, I focused on that movement and started experimenting with colour and placement. I really like the look of these sketches and started making the lines bigger, less negative space on the page and more detailed. I then decided to add a snake into a sketch, which I really liked the outcome of the responses, however I’m not sure what I could develop further in the future. I would focus on the patter and shape and the movement of snakes. I am thinking of going down a more urban environment route for this project, however I’m not entirely sure yet.

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WAWWA: DEVELOPMENT PRT.14

I was really happy with the previous artworks I had done, and wanted to see if I could create I piece, made from my favourite aspects of each piece.

I started off with adding the glitch slogan to the artwork where I was focusing on worshiping. I did like the look, but I do feel it looks like two different artworks on top of one another and not in a good way! So I decided to take all the aspects I like and them combined them together. I did like the outcome and I do feel I did what I had intended, but I do feel the piece is too busy, too much going on.

I then did a quick photoshop piece, just out of pure curiosity and experimentation. I took a picture I took of myself when in a Zoom call, and then copied it three time in different sections. I really like this piece and feel it was my favourite of the three I did today, but it doesn’t really have anything to do with my project. But it has definitely inspired my next development process.

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WAWWA: DEVELOPMENT PRT.13

I went back to my original artwork of me in my comfort clothes, and decided to see if I could develop this piece further, as I think it looked boring and unfinished.

I decided to zoom into the whole piece, this cause the pixels to really show. I like the pixels showing and I feel it looks more digital, which I feel is appropriate as the majority of anything in general is online. I also decided to add the Queen’s slogan: ‘Sapienta et doctrina stabilitas’, meaning ‘wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times’. I thought this slogan was quite funny, as the British government hasn’t handled the coronavirus well at all, and hasn’t dealt with it with ‘wisdom and knowledge’, quite far from it. I then added on ‘right?’, in response to how the UK has dealt with the virus. I then made the slogan have a x-ray like look to add to the glitch look.

I much prefer this piece to the original piece. There’s more going on and the composition is better.

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WAWWA: DEVELOPMENT PRT.12

I wanted to develop my previous piece further, especially around the aspect of royalty and worship. I did a photoshoot where I was seated in worship poses. I then went on to place between the two portraits of me that were originally there. I feel adding these poses really enhance the idea od the virus being a higher being or a modern royalty.

I also added more graphs, and layering them ontop of one another as a background, which I prefer when compared to the artwork previously as it adds colours, and more interesting in general.

I also edited the hue and saturation of the ‘cell’. I decided to enhance the colours, so they become more vibrant and neon like, which I feel give the artwork I more sense of science and virus like atmosphere.

I really like this piece, and I feel its a really strong piece. I do like how the project is developing and looking forward to experimenting more

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WAWWA:DEVELOPMENT PRT.11

I continued with the red theme, but I wanted to play about with the theme of royalty, and comparing that to the virus and the restrictions put in place.

I photoshopped a painting of a cell I did in a previous painting and played it on top of the Royal Crest. I wanted portray that the virus is above and is becoming a ‘higher being’. And with the restrictions, we have to do what it says. In a way we’re worshipping it, obeying it in a way.

I added stressed faces of myself, to representing the angry and manic feeling I had during quarantine. I still wanted to represent the graphs in this piece as well, so I added the counting in numbers between march 2020 and December 2020.

When thinking about royalty and covid and its restrictions, I realised they all have something in common. They all have slogans. I then went on to replace the royal slogan: “Dieu et mon droit” with the covid safety slogan: “Hands.Face.Space”. I wanted to show that the virus is becoming powerful in controlling how we live, and is becoming a modern god.

I continued to have the red circle as, with its placement it looks like in over taking. I really like this piece, and I’m looking forward to developing it further.

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WAWWA: DEVELOPMENT PRT. 10

Carrying on from my artwork created in the previous post, I decided to continue with photoshop. I wanted to experiment more with the graphs as a background. I also wanted to experiment with stop-like movement, so added photoshops of me, wearing pyjamas or comfort clothes that I wear around the house. I decided to wear this outfit as its what a wore throughout quarantine.

I looked into graphs and statistics on the deaths, cases and progression of the virus. I have been focusing on the actual cell itself and the visualisation, so now I want see more into the science, statistics and progression.

I added the swirl as its in a circular motion, representing the cell, in red because of since of danger that red is associated with.

I feel this piece is a bit messy and plain, boring. However I do feel it a successful in the developing episode, as if I was to add more aspects, it could become a good art piece.

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WAWWA:DEVELOPMENT PRT.9

From the feedback given to me at Group Crits, I decided to look more into information graphs the† have been used to show the covid-19 progression with infected, deaths and cases. I also wanted to look into the connection of the virus and royalty. As coronavirus connects with the word “crown” in latin.

I started off with painting a piece with a background and similar virus imagery like my previous painting. However I used the colours red and warm colours, as the news uses red for the virus.

When thinking about the restrictions, we listen to them and follow them and in a way we obey them, which is all surrounding the virus. Whatever the virus does we relate and in a way the virus controls us, like royalty would.

I then went on to do a photoshoot of me in a worshipping position and photoshopped the painting, so the painting is outline with me. I also looked at graphs showing the deaths in five days since getting the virus and the number in each countries.

I don’t really like the piece created, however I do feel I’m going down a good path in my project and looking forward to carrying it on.

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WAWWA: DEVELOPMENT PRT.8

I decided to look back at the painting I did previously and experiment with it using photoshop. I wanted to make the ‘cells’ actually look like cells, especially the corona virus cell. I cut the cell painting and then layered the Lino print of cell I also did on top. I fell this really looked like the actually cell. I then went to change the colouring with more bright and neon colours. I really like the outcome and find the pieces really effective.

I also did I piece of me, with the Lino prints of the lung layering on top on me with the colouring changed. I too like this piece and feel I would like to go down this type of path with my more resolved pieces in the future.

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WAWWA: DEVELOPMENT PRT.7

Today, I carried on making prints with the Lino cut I did previously. I experimented with them by layering over one another with different colours. I then went one to photoshop them and overlaying them once again and enhancing the saturation on them to give them a x-ray type look to them. I did this because I feel it looks like those science like animations you see on the television when they’re talking about cells and anatomy.

I really enjoy making these and found the outcome to be successful. I also decided to crop certain parts of the artwork to focus on the patterns and colour contrasts. However, due to file sizing and the original size of the images, the outcome photos are particularly small. In the future I plan to check my photo sizing and learn how I can fix it for next upcoming pieces.

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WAWWA:DEVELOPMENT PRT.6

I started to paint a piece where there’s a detailed cell in the centre, however it wasn’t going well, it just wasn’t turning out the way a expected, and I was struggling with the colours. So, I decided to put them into photoshop and change the colours into that.

I then went on to use photoshop as a way to collage my previous work together. For the first collage piece, I wanted to show a representation of how the virus can seem to be everywhere, and I put the Lino print of the ‘air sac’ over the body as I way to make it clearer. I really like the contrast in this piece and the dreamy feel it has.

I then used the painting I did, and photoshopped it into the background of a photo I took of myself. This was to show that the virus felt it was always looming about us, even when you’re in you own bed, its hard now a days to not be thinking about it, even when you close your eyes.

The last photoshop I didn’t like as much. This piece was more a experimentation, where I just wanted to if the composition would be effective, I feel it is effective to an extent, but next time I would either more colour or change the position.

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